Two complainants brought a constitutional complaint before the German Constitutional Court. The complaint was directed against a judgement of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) that dismissed their action because the Hellenic Republic enjoyed state immunity before the German...

This article analyses three seminal cases of bondholder litigation before German municipal Courts following the Greek sovereign debt restructuring of 2012. While the haircut imposed on private bondholders led to a significant reduction of the country's debt level in 2012, thousands of German...

This paper examines the position of investors holding Greek sovereign bonds after the restructuring (PSI) which took place in 2012. After briefly reviewing the main features of the PSI, the paper undertakes to verify whether investors could challenge the operation on the basis of their property...

The model presented in this paper shows that the outcome of a leveraged buyback of sovereign debt depends on the seniority structure of the deal. If the institution lending the funds needed for the buyback is senior, the debtor country benefits from the deal and the market price of bonds...

Hans-Werner Sinn plädiert für eine Begrenzung der Notfallkredite, die die EZB Griechenland gewährt, und für die Einführung eine Kapitalverkehrskontrolle durch die griechische Regierung.

Hans-Werner Sinn plädiert für eine Begrenzung der Notfallkredite, die die EZB Griechenland gewährt, und für die Einführung eine Kapitalverkehrskontrolle durch die griechische Regierung.

There are two possible responses to the Greek debt crisis: 'Plan A', continued official lending, for as long as needed, with possible voluntary private sector involvement, and 'Plan B', coercive pre-emptive or post-default restructuring with significant face value reduction in privately-held...

There are two possible responses to the Greek debt crisis: 'Plan A', continued official lending, for as long as needed, with possible voluntary private sector involvement, and 'Plan B', coercive pre-emptive or post-default restructuring with significant face value reduction in privately-held...

Creditor countries and international organizations continue to disagree whether Greece should receive additional official debt relief, and if so how much. This paper first shows that these disagreements can be attributed to competing assumptions about Greece's future capacity to repay,...